The study added that 60% of women wearing a headscarf were subject to discrimination, while 37% of them have been victims of verbal harassment and insults.

Women who do not wear headscarf were also subject to discrimination for their religion.

Headscarf or hijab is a topical issue in France nowadays, dividing public opinion with some calling for its ban in public spaces.

On October 11, Julien Odoul, a member of France’s National Rally (RN), the country’s leading right-wing political party, asked a Muslim woman to remove her hijab while she was accompanying her son on a school trip.